Hi Bill and welcome, This is not an official forum. As far as I know there is only the mailing list http://lists.gambas-basic.org/listinfo/user but something may happen here soon http://www.gambas-basic.org/ . We set this up when 'gambas.guru' closed. I was hoping to get more traffic that we do, see...

Why does Gambas default to the root directory? If you were running a Distro like Puppy that gives you access to all the directories without the need to use 'sudo' or root passwords Gambas will happily put your new file in the 'root' directory. This is fine but allows you to really screw things up v...

Hi and welcome. If I read your request correctly there is a very easy way to do this in Gambas. The reason you are getting "Access forbidden" is because you are trying to write your file to the root directory which you are not allowed to do. Your 'Home' directory is the place to save your file and G...

OK. I suggest you add the following code at line 79 to create 'param.par' if it does not exist If Not Exist(User.home &/ "param.par") Then File.Save(User.home &/ "param.par", "") I changed all references to the RamDrive to /tmp (not /tmp1) and added the following 'Sub' which I took from 'PiCam'. Pub...

Hi Sony, I got the LibWiringPi sorted :D Then at line 78 I got error 'File of directory does not exist' :o nf = "~/param.par" hfile = Open nf for Input I REMed that out then I got another error at Line 180, 'Unable to load picture' :? hMyPic = Picture.Load("/var/tmp1/sample.jpg") What am I missing?

Hi sony, It is a shame that there is not more activity on the site but it seems that Gambas is a niche programming language. I would expect a little more traffic when you see the amount of downloads some of the 'Farm' software gets. I put an email address in the programs I publish but I have only ha...